Major General Dhruv C Katoch is Director, India Foundation and Editor, India Foundation Journal.
The author argues that India’s progress towards Viksit Bharat is increasingly within reach, but its next challenge is to develop strategic, intellectual, and cultural self-reliance rather than merely pursue material development. He argues that this requires greater accountability, resilience against cognitive and information warfare, and a distinctly Bharatiya vocabulary and mindset rooted in India’s civilisational heritage rather than borrowed Western frameworks.
